Summer 2015 Artwork
from Summer Art Intensive at Mill Street Loft
Impossible Still Life: Session 1
Charcoal on paper
Every year at the Summer Art Intensive, every session, we start out with a still life drawing in order to understand value, composition and other elements.
Color RnG
Acrylic on canvas
The rectangle/square in the right-bottom-corner is the same color as the color of the background on the left side of the figure.
Lord Crystal Clear
Acrylic on canvas
The objective:
A. (I was in an Advanced Drawing & Painting class) to beat the Character Design class by creating our own character faster than what they were doing (At this point, the Character Design class was still finalizing their chracters and starting to sculpt them).
B. Randomly choose 5 cards from the 'Reckless Deck' (http://www.recklessdeck.com/) (1 card from each category i.e. attributes, weapon, etc), create a portrait of a character.
1. Ice Attributes
2. Talisman / Source of power
3. Chainsaw
4. Mohawk
5. Arcaic Helmet
Death Awaits
Acrylic on shirt
Objective:
-Interpret "All packed up and ready to go" and illustrate your own idea.
Impossible Still Life: Session 2
Charcoal on paper
Every year at the Summer Art Intensive, every session, we start out with a still life drawing in order to understand value, composition and other elements.
Tremor
Acrylic on canvas
Requirement:
-Self Portrait: by using the 'Zorn Pallette' (yellow, red, black, and white) used by Anders Zorn.
-Show at least 2 different views of the face.
Hexa-Box
Acrylic on cardboard-cylinder-containers ('box' handcrafted by me, using the containers, gesso, gluegun, paper and cardborads)
Assignment Requirements:
-Interpret the Q&A: Q: "Where do you keep it?" A: "I keep it in a box."
-Must be 3-dimensional and must build a 'box'/surface from scrap.
-Show at least 6 different interpretations. One interpretation on each side of the box.
-Medium: Anything List of themes/concepts/ideas I used: (6 sides)
1. Looking for the box, "Where is the box?"
2. Drugs/pills
3. Sorrow/grief/depression
4. Secrets
5. Pandora's Box
6. Inner Beast
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